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MBA Healthcare with Data Analytics

This online MBA equips you with strategic leadership, data analytics, and financial management skills to drive innovation in healthcare. Earn your MBA flexibly at your own pace and gain expertise to further your healthcare career.

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Time investment: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Location: Online

Cost: £10,500

Language: English

About this degree

Propel your healthcare career with business and data analytics skills

Do you want to become a successful leader in the healthcare industry? Gain essential strategic management and healthcare leadership skills with this online MBA in Healthcare Management with Data Analytics from the University of Roehampton.

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare sector, harnessing data to make informed decisions is paramount. This degree integrates core business management principles with cutting-edge data analytics techniques to help you become an insightful and confident decision-maker.

Become a strategic leader in healthcare

Throughout the MBA, you’ll focus on developing strategic leadership skills, crucial for navigating the healthcare industry’s multifaceted challenges. You’ll start by gaining insights into change management, strategic development, and leadership theories to help you drive organisational success.

Through this exploration, you’ll discover how strategic tools can be applied to healthcare contexts to ensure organisations can adapt and thrive amid changes. You’ll also learn to implement strategic approaches like PESTLE and Balance Scorecard to improve and sustain long-term growth.

Master research skills for career growth

To help you face the uncertainties of modern business, you’ll engage with practical, real-world scenarios that will help develop your problem-solving skills and build your confidence.

You’ll also gain a thorough understanding of the consultancy lifecycle and research methodologies. This will not only help you complete the capstone dissertation at the end of the MBA but will also ensure you’re prepared for future job roles that require critical thinking and strategic foresight.

Develop an understanding of financial management

Financial acumen is essential for healthcare managers to support new initiatives and strategic aims effectively. On the MBA, you’ll learn to manage financial resources as you delve into advanced financial analysis and performance control tools.

You’ll also explore the role of budgets and budgetary control. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to enhance organisational performance.

Innovate the future of healthcare with data analytics

Finally, you’ll discover how healthcare innovation can be used to implement change to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. You’ll understand how innovation can positively disrupt practices as you delve into megatrends such as AI and telemedicine.

Then, you’ll develop the analytical prowess to turn data into actionable insights, leveraging data visualisation tools and techniques to communicate findings effectively. Mastering these skills, and through expert guidance from the University of Roehampton, you’ll finish the MBA with the knowledge and confidence to take on pivotal roles in data-driven health management.

Where you’ll be studying

Studying at the University of Roehampton

University of Roehampton is where ambition meets opportunity.

Expert-led programmes with industry-focused curricula challenge up-and-coming professionals to think critically, explore new ideas, and develop the expertise needed for career growth.

With flexible learning environments and on-demand support, Roehampton empowers you not just to adapt to changing industries but to drive innovation within them.

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Learning outcomes

Understand global healthcare dynamics, including policy, regulation, and digital innovation, to drive sector change.

Apply financial principles to manage budgets, resources, and reporting within healthcare organisations.

Use problem-solving, critical thinking, and data analysis to address diverse healthcare management issues.

Organise and communicate data insights to support decision-making and improve healthcare operations.

Use data analytics and decision-making frameworks to tackle healthcare management challenges.

Demonstrate ethical leadership and interpersonal skills to enhance performance and contribute to global healthcare communities.

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Additional information

This programme prepares you for graduate roles focused on applying data-driven strategies to optimise processes and implement best practices within healthcare settings. To be eligible, you should hold a second-class honours degree, equivalent to a 2:2 UK degree in a STEM-based subject. However, the University of Roehampton encourages non-graduates with appropriate professional qualifications and those with third-class honours degrees to apply.

This programme is taught in English. Non-native English speakers are required to demonstrate an English-language proficiency equivalent to IELTS 6.5 overall, with no component below 5.5, or TOEFL 600. If your IELTS score is 6.0, you may be eligible to take Roehampton’s online pre-sessional English course to help prepare for your studies.

This online degree consists of six modules and one final dissertation that can be completed in one year, full-time or two years, part-time.

By gaining business and tech skills in healthcare management and data analytics, you’ll be ready to excel in roles that leverage healthcare data to enhance operations and outcomes, manage IT systems to ensure security and compliance or advise organisations on improving efficiency and reducing costs, such as: